We return with the next issue of Computer Entertainer. The cover year of the newsletter now reads 1984, and the newsletter begins by reflecting on the events of 1983, along with a list of best-selling games for any platform of the year and its annual Awards for Excellence.

CBS and Parker Brothers drop all planned software for Intellivision, and Imagic drops both the Intellivision and Atari 2600. Synapse cancels three computer games. Imagic remains a strong competitor in the market, but has seen its staff cut down to 25 designers and its own games manufactured by contract. It has told Computer Entertainer about its five upcoming games for ColecoVision, one being an original title called Wing War, all planned for the first quarter of 1984. It is also ready to ship conversions for TI-99/4A such as Demon Attack and Microsurgeon. The same games will appear for PCjr, as will two sports games. MicroFun will debut two games for multiple systems, with one soon to appear at Winter CES. Its business-oriented division, MicroLearn, is producing two home management applications. Pitfall! is receiving a sequel, Pitfall II: Lost Caverns for Atari 2600. Other Activision games to be showcased at Winter CES include H.E.R.O. and Zenji. Units of Vectrex's Imager 3-D are just showing up for retail. The first games to use the peripheral will be conversions of Roller Coaster, Mind Storm, and Pole Position. The console's Light Pen will receive more software and the console itself two additional games. Atari Inc. is setting up "Atari Adventure" family entertainment centers across the United States, where visitors can play in the video game room, use one of the Atari XL computers in a classroom setting in the learning room, and gain insight into the latest technologies in the technology display area. Interphase makes known plans for games that will feature vocal output without the need for a voice synthesis module, along with what could be the first adventure game for that system, Aquattack. It will also release a string of games for Commodore 64 in both diskette and cartridge form as their solution to diskette piracy and the cost of manufacturing cartridges, the first of these games being Viking Raider.

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